Magazine world view: Bye, bye agencies?; CDO needed; greedy journalists; BBC magazines deal cleared

Why clients don't need agencies anymore (MediaBizBloggers)
PR Week leads campaign for paid internships (Jon Slattery)
What every magazine media company needs: A Chief Dream Officer (Mr. Magazine)
AMI strikes $550 million deal with RR Donnelley (Audience Development)
Throwing in the towel on 5-Day delivery? (Dead Tree Edition)
Why do consumer stars so often fail to shine in B-to-B? (Folio:

Magazine world view:Funnest mag; more starts than stops; Future looks ahead; Hearst (surprise) makes money

Adweek owners says Wolff is not being fired (Romenesko) 
It’s a fun, fun, fun fun Magazine: The Mr. Magazine™ Interview with  HGTV magazine editor-in-chief (Mr. Magazine) 
Report: media M&A flat through third quarter (Audience Development) 
When NOT to use a QR code (Dead Tree Edition)
Magazines, newspapers set for more declines (MediaPost) 
In 2011, magazine launches outpace closures (Folio:)

Magazine world view: Covering SUCCESS; 5-day U.S. mail; new HGTV mag; 6-pack ads

Survey: Two-thirds of Americans wouldn’t miss their local newspaper if it vanished (Future of Media)
SUCCESS Magazine is gender neutral, but no one said its covers can’t be gender specfic (Mr. Magazine)
Dear WordCount: What should freelancers wear to work? (WordCount)
House Committee, Senate moves on 5-Day USPS delivery schedule (Audience Development) 
Bad customer service is built into the

Magazine world view: Murdoch is "stiletto"; a benefit-free job; ad budgets stay solid

Times: Met's action against Guardian 'shameful' (The Times) 
USPS consolidation plan means moving or closing come FSS machines (Dead Tree Edition) 
Condé Nast publisher moves: Kremins to Condé Nast Traveler, Myers to Brides, Bloom to Lucky (Folio:) 
Hearst’s David Carey calls for tiered subscriptions and auto-renewals on tablets (Folio:) 
Slate offers assistant job, free of benefit(s) (New York

World view: Lord Black objects; Sue over riot info demands; teaching magazine; falling paper prices?

Time Warner's publishing ad sales slow, but CEO remains positive (CityBizList)
Conrad Black hits out at Murdoch "price war myth" (Jon Slattery)
NUJ urges media to go to court over riot material (Jon Slattery)
Collecting six covers of one issue becomes like baseball cards (Mr. Magazine)
First-half newsstand declines in more detail (Audience Development)
Financial Times app exits the app

Magazine world view: Project's tweak; fast Firefox; RIP American Printer; newsstand declines

Virgin's iPad magazine Project tweaked after reader survey (MediaWeek) 
Mozilla on rapid release of new Firefox versions: “There is no free lunch” (Mashable) 
Committe to Protect Journalists: 'Trapped journalists in Tripoli must be treated as civilians' (Jon Slattery) 
Digital and On-Line is NOT the new cemetery plot for print… ((Mr. Magazine) 
BPA report shows newsstand declines (Audience

Magazine world view: Too many posties? Bonnier tab-mag; Nuts relaunch; HuffPo OK in UK?

[U.S.]Postal service has too many employees and pays them too much, mailer groups say (Dead Tree Edition) 
Bonnier's new digital imprint launches first tablet-only mag (Audience Development) 
Struggling "Every Day With Rachel Ray" drives 2Q losses for Reader's Digest (Folio:) 
Amazon launches Kindle Cloud Reader (Folio:) 
Nuts sticks to tried and tested formula for relaunch (Guardian)
Open

Magazine world view: TIME tablets; Hearst UK; Intelligent Life in HK, Singapore, India

Time Inc. posts second-quarter gains (Folio:) 
All 21 Time Inc. magazines to have tablet editions by year-end (Audience Development) 
How publishers are dealing with Apple's in-app subscription policies (paidContent) 
PA pays out to freelance agency over 'lifted' interview with father of murdered Jo Yeates (Jon Slattery)
NatMag and Hachette become Hearst Magazines UK (Press Gazette)  
PrintCity

Magazine world view: Rich Twitter; USPS hikes; mag sites that suck; Scots' lifestyle

Funding values Twitter at $8.4 billion (Wall Street Journal)
Financial Times grows paid digital subs 34% in first half 2011 (Folio:)
Hanley Wood sees single digit revenue increase, 20% earnings jump in first half of 2011 (Folio:)
USPS wants rates raised, mag publishers cry foul (MediaPost)
Forecast downgrades global adspend (MediaDailyNews)
Conde Nast: 242,000 iPad subs in first 6 weeks (

Magazine world view: Time bundling; Bye-bye Borders; Future shrinks

Schofield Media shutters U.S. operations (Folio:)
What's next for News Corp. and its worlds (Buzz Machine) 
UNICEF urges news media to 'move on' from phone hacking and focus on famine in Somalia (Jon Slattery) 
Time magazine gets the bundle treatment (Audience Development) 
With no options left, Borders to close all stores (Audience Development) 
[U.S.] Postal Service can no longer afford

Magazine world view: Oath for journos?; Beastly Newsweek; Condé bumps up leases

This media is corrupt – we need a Hippocratic oath for journalists (Guardian) 
The Times: 'NI has lost control of the story'  (Jon Slattery) 
The Daily Beast Fully Absorbs Newsweek.com (Audience Development) 
M&A up 14 percent in first half of 2011 from last half of 2010 (Folio:)
Condé Nast powers 34% jump in leasing (Crain's New York Business) 
Milly Dowler's parents urge Miliband to be fearless

Magazine world view: Newsweek 'Di' issue flops; global ads gain; tablets are a guy thing

Newsweek's creepy Princess Diana cover only had 13 ad pages (Folio:)
Jack Essig named Esquire publishing director (Folio:)
News of the World editor tells staff to atone for the past (Guardian) 
Dennis Publishing acquires Women's Fitness (Press Gazette) 
How important are writing skills for modern journalists? (MediaShift)
WPP: Global ad gains slow a bit, as digital captures larger share (

Magazine world view: Baku goes global; e-readers outpace tablets; tiny printshop

Condé Nast to publish international edition of Baku magazine (Media Week) 
‘Twitter for Newsrooms’ becomes official resource guide for journalists (Future of Media) 
Nomad Editions launches two new publications (Folio:) 
Sound + Vision uses digital edition to expand editorial (Folio:) 
New research shows e-readers outpace tablets (Audience Development) 
Magazine's database of US military

Magazine world view: Ancient Banker; RDNA prez; Webby love; modesty forbids

Reader’s Digest Association names Dan Lagani president, North America (Audience Development) 
Apple Changes Rules on in-app subs (Audience Development) 
American Banker celebrates 175th anniversary, preps for relaunch (Folio:) 
USPS defends 5-Day service savings, rebukes PRC (Folio:) 
Lobbying the (U.S.) postal service is a multimillion-dollar business (Dead Tree Edition)
 A good magazine cover

Magazine world view: Zinio on Android; NIM on Galaxy; Condé (UK) restructures; Time Out expands

Zinio Digital Newsstand now available on Android technology (Folio:)
 Next Issue Media offers preview on Samsung Galaxy tablet (Folio:) 
Report: Android Marketplace closes on Apple in volume, but not usage (Folio:) 
Condé Nast Digital (UK) set for restructure as Pignataro leaves (Media Week) 
British Library creates a "national memory' with digital newspaper archive (Guardian) 
Time Out strikes

World view: Readers share data; b2b digital rev up; RDA picks new CFO; kids' apps

Report: 40 per cent of app users opt to share data with publishers (Audience Development) 
Why do we need a postal service? (Buzz Machine)
Primedia sold to TPG Capital for $525 Million (Audience Development) 
B-to-B digital revenue up 15 percent to $4.6 billion in 2010 (Audience Development) 
How the postal service subsidizes The Wall Street Journal -- and Why It Should Stop (Dead Tree Edition)

Magazine world view:Three TIMEs; Conde hearts Apple; Nat Geo mag of year; Bloody Esquire

Nationals step up assault on super-injunctions (Jon Slattery)
Magazine history in the making: three issues in one week for TIME (Mr. Magazine)
Conde Nast strikes subscription deal with Apple (Audience Development)
National Geographic wins magazine of the year (Audience Development)
A new slogan for the (US) postal service: "Just say no" (Dead Tree Edition)
New future US site is powered by "super

Magazine world view: Get me rewrite; RD buys Haven Home; struggling with apps; Country Life royal-watches

With smartphones, homeless magazine vendors to become citizen journalists (Press Gazette) 
An inquiry into press practice will be good for free speech | John Kampfner (Guardian) 
Reader's Digest buys vertical ad network Haven Home Media (paidContent)
Magazine publishers scramble to streamline their app production (paidContent)
Ogden Publishing to integrate fulfillment with e-mail marketing (

World view: US post settlement; NUJ hires a lawyer; dangerous forums; tough for The Daily

Tentative labour agreement between [U.S.] postal service, union could save $3.8 billion (Folio:)
NUJ seeks legal advice over Sports Media collapse (Jon Slattery)
"Your business card is CRAP!" (PrintCEO)
ASME announces 2011 National Magazine Awards finalists (Audience Development)
Most dangerous jobs: loggers, cops, forum moderators? (Folio:)
Is News Corp losing control of the phone-hacking story

World view: Buy and close; ABM shakeup; £1m payout; Russki corruption;changing Times

TechTarget buys RBI's Computer Weekly, while print mag folds (Folio:)
 ABM announces new business plan, management staff (Audience Development)
The Economist, Mediabistro join Starbucks digital media network (Audience Development)
LIFE.com rejuvenates brand through website (Folio:)
Times and Sunday Times hit 79,000 digital subscribers (Guardian)
Outgoing Johnston Press chief executive paid more